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11672803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirahama%20Kenki | Shirahama Kenki | Shirahama Kenki (白濱顕貴, Viet: Bạch Tân Hiển Quý) was a Japanese pirate of the late 16th-early 17th centuries, one of the first Japanese with whom the southern Vietnamese principality of the Nguyễn lords made contact.
He first arrived on the Vietnamese coast in 1585, with five ships, and began to engage in pirate raids ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
11672894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Burnaby | Robert Burnaby | Robert Burnaby (November 30, 1828 – January 10, 1878) was an English politician and civil servant in British Columbia, where he served as Private Secretary to Richard Clement Moody, who was the founder and the first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. Moody named Burnaby Lake, in British Columbia, after Burnaby, a... | 2.34375 | 0 |
11672924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama%20Sea%20Frontier | Panama Sea Frontier | The Panama Sea Frontier was a U.S. Navy command responsible during and shortly after World War II for the defense of the Pacific and Atlantic sea approaches to the Panama Canal and naval shore facilities in the Central America region. The Sea Frontier headquarters were located in Balboa, Panama.
On the west coast of t... | 2.34375 | 0 |
11672986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linville%20Caverns | Linville Caverns | Linville Caverns are privately owned active limestone caverns located in northern McDowell County, North Carolina, just south of the village of Linville Falls, on U.S. Highway 221. The caverns are open to the public year-round for guided tours. Linville Caverns have been open for tours since the late 1930s and remain t... | 2.46875 | 0 |
11673091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartonella%20bacilliformis | Bartonella bacilliformis | Bartonella bacilliformis is a bacterium, Gram negative aerobic, pleomorphic, flagellated, motile, coccobacillary, 2–3 μm long, 0.2–0.5 μm wide, and a facultative intracellular bacterium.
History
The bacterium was discovered by Peruvian microbiologist Alberto Barton in 1905, but it was not published until 1909. Barton ... | 2.90625 | 0 |
11673091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartonella%20bacilliformis | Bartonella bacilliformis | When the bacterium invades endothelial cells, it produces the chronic manifestation of the disease known as verruga peruana. This phase consists of a benign skin eruption with raised, reddish-purple nodules (angiomatous tumours). Visualization of the bacteria is possible using silver stain (the Warthin–Starry method) ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
11673127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Roche%20%28historian%29 | Daniel Roche (historian) | Le Siècle des Lumières en Province
Roche’s doctoral thesis was published in 1978 under the title Le Siècle des Lumières en Province: Académies et Académiciens Provinciaux, 1680–1789 (The Enlightenment in the Provinces: Provincial Academies and Academics, 1680–1789) and was quickly met with praise not only as a work of ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
11673139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Anwandter%20Nature%20Sanctuary | Carlos Anwandter Nature Sanctuary | Carlos Anwandter Nature Sanctuary () is protected wetland in Cruces River about north of Valdivia, Chile. The sanctuary is named after the German politician Carlos Anwandter who settled in Valdivia in 1850. This sanctuary provides a home for many native waterbird species to flourish, and contains roughly 119 species o... | 2.546875 | 0 |
11673139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Anwandter%20Nature%20Sanctuary | Carlos Anwandter Nature Sanctuary | CELCO was ultimately condemned in court in 2013. The ruling mandated CELCO to pay an indemnity of 2,600 million Chilean pesos to the state, in addition to another 2,600 million for the implementation of community development programs. CELCO chose not to appeal the ruling.
Between 2005 and 2011, the swan population did... | 2.0625 | 0 |
11673172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pradeep%20Dubey | Pradeep Dubey | Pradeep Dubey (born 9 January 1951) is an Indian game theorist. He is a Professor of Economics at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and a member of the Stony Brook Center for Game Theory. He also holds a visiting position at Cowles Foundation, Yale University. He did his schooling at the St. Columba's Scho... | 2.046875 | 0 |
11673196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Suns | House of Suns | House of Suns is a 2008 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. The novel was shortlisted for the 2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award.
Setting
Approximately six million years in the future, humanity has spread throughout the Milky Way galaxy, which appears devoid of any other organic sentient life. The galaxy... | 2.046875 | 0 |
11673196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Suns | House of Suns | Campion, now the only shatterling still in pursuit, enters the wormhole after them and emerges in the Andromeda Galaxy, a place apparently devoid of all sentient life. In his search for Purslane and her ship, he travels to a star encased in a huge representation of the Platonic solids, lands on a planet orbiting inside... | 1.945313 | 0 |
11673211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breiteberg | Breiteberg | The Breiteberg is a hill in the Lusatian Highlands in Free State of Saxony, Federal Republic of Germany, with an altitude of above mean sea level. It is the local mountain of Hainewalde, and about half-an-hour's drive from the village. Phonolite covers most of its surface.
Location and surroundings
The Breiteberg is... | 2.109375 | 0 |
11673238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Ochs | Larry Ochs | Lawrence "Larry" Ochs (March 9, 1924 – April 23, 2003) was an American politician who served as the 36th Mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Early life and education
Ochs was born on March 9, 1924, in Russell, Kansas, the second of five children born to David and Matilda Emma Ochs (née Strecker). Ochs grew up in Rus... | 2.109375 | 0 |
11673361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun%20Bawang | Lun Bawang | The Lun Bawang (formerly known as Trusan Murut and Mengalong Murut or Southern Murut) is an ethnic group found in Central Northern Borneo. They are indigenous to the southwest of Sabah (Interior Division including Labuan) and the northern region of Sarawak (Limbang Division), highlands of North Kalimantan (Long Bawan... | 2.515625 | 0 |
11673361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun%20Bawang | Lun Bawang | While insisting that they never called themselves Murut, the Lun Bawangs were formerly identified as Murut by the British colonists and by outsiders (other ethnic groups). In Lun Bawang language, the word Murut either means 'to massage' or 'to give dowry', and these meanings have little or no relation at all to the ide... | 2.640625 | 0 |
11673361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun%20Bawang | Lun Bawang | One theory suggests that Apo Duat is the homeland of this common ancestor and that they have expanded out to the coastal area. The migration of these people to the low lands and gradual spreading out might have been spurred by various waves of migration of the Lun Bawang people from different clans. The migration of Lu... | 2.796875 | 0 |
11673361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun%20Bawang | Lun Bawang | Relations with the Kingdom of Brunei
According to Brunei oral tradition, the Lun Bawangs (Murut) were brought under the rule of the Brunei kingdom by peaceful measures during the reign of Awang Alak Betatar. This is said to be accomplished through dealings between the Lun Bawang and Awang Alak Betatar's brother, Awang ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
11673361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun%20Bawang | Lun Bawang | Lun Bawangs with Europeans settlement
Early Europeans used the exonym Maroot, Marut, Morut, or Murut to describe the Lun Bawang people, and this might have been introduced by the Brunei Malays who came in contact with them in Brunei. The earliest European written account of the Lun Bawang people is probably by Thomas ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
11673361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun%20Bawang | Lun Bawang | A more elaborate European account of the Lun Bawang people is by Spenser St. John in 1860, where he described the impoverished condition of the Lun Bawang (then called Limbang Muruts) people under the rule of the Brunei Sultanate. He also gave an account of the aborigines (Murut and Bisaya) rise to insurrection. Howeve... | 2.59375 | 0 |
11673361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun%20Bawang | Lun Bawang | In Sipitang district of Sabah, Sabahan Lun Bawangs and Lundayeh celebrates the harvest festival (Kaamatan) biennially during the Festival of GATA (Gasing and Tamu Besar), during which traditional dances and costumes are being showcased along with those of other native ethnics in the district such as the Murut, Kedayan ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
11673361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun%20Bawang | Lun Bawang | With the advent of Rajah rule and conversion to Christianity, the standard of living improved tremendously, as the missionaries introduced better healthcare, a sanitary system, and proper education system. The Lun Bawang were very zealous at school, and in 1940, about 95% of the Lun Bawang and related Kelabit tribe und... | 2.6875 | 0 |
11673386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Pandyan%20kingdom | Early Pandyan kingdom | The Early Pandyas of the Sangam period were one of the three main kingdoms of the Tamilakam (southern India), the other two being the Cholas, and Cheras dynasty. As with many other kingdoms around this period (earlier than 200 BCE), most of the information about the Early Pandyas come to modern historians mainly throug... | 2.71875 | 0 |
11673386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Pandyan%20kingdom | Early Pandyan kingdom | One theory is that the word Pandya is derived from the Tamil word "Pandi" meaning bull. Ancient Tamils, considered the bull as a sign of masculinity and valor. Pandya became the epithet of the first Pandyan king of Thenmadurai (lit. south Mathurai), Kulasekharan Pandya as he was built like a bull. It was used as an epi... | 2.75 | 0 |
11673386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Pandyan%20kingdom | Early Pandyan kingdom | The excavations at Alagankulam, near Madurai, recovered two copper coins of the early Pandyas along with Northern Black Polished Ware. These coins have been assigned a broad time period ranging from 200 BCE to 200 CE. Several coins issued by the Pandyan king Mudukudumi Peruvaludhi have been recovered in the Madurai are... | 3.0625 | 0 |
11673386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Pandyan%20kingdom | Early Pandyan kingdom | The next king in the hierarchy was Nedunj Cheliyan III, who is considered the greatest of all the early Pandyan kings. Since the Pandyan kingdom was considerably larger than a few generations ago, he had to defend it against many neighbors invading from various fronts. Not only did he succeed in defending his territory... | 2.609375 | 0 |
11673386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Pandyan%20kingdom | Early Pandyan kingdom | The head of the government was the king, a hereditary monarch. His power was restricted by the Aimberunguzhu (Tamil: ஐம்பெருங்குழு) or the Five Great Assemblies, which consisted of the representatives of the people, priests, physicians, astrologers and the ministers. There was another assembly of officials that served ... | 3.046875 | 0 |
11673386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Pandyan%20kingdom | Early Pandyan kingdom | Justice was administered free of charge, by special officers appointed as judges and magistrates, but the king was supreme and the final arbiter in all civil and criminal cases. Mortgage, lease, trust property, loans, breach of contract were some common sources of civil litigation, while criminal offences included thef... | 2.984375 | 0 |
11673441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20deadly%20earthquakes%20since%201900 | List of deadly earthquakes since 1900 | The third fatality column is taken from the Utsu catalog of deadly earthquakes, and generally represents the total deaths resulting from an earthquake. The Utsu catalog is complete up until late 2003. The fourth column is derived from the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT). EM-DAT has been developed and maintained by t... | 2.234375 | 0 |
11673517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond%20Flowers%20Sr. | Richmond Flowers Sr. | As an intraparty opponent of Wallace, Flowers was invited to speak at the Yale Law School in the fall of 1965, a venue that had previously booed Wallace from that same stage. Instead of echoing the then-popular (in the North) criticisms of Wallace, Flowers began his speech with a lengthy, withering, and completely unex... | 1.929688 | 0 |
11673641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byomkes%20Chakrabarti | Byomkes Chakrabarti | Byomkes Chakrabarti (also spelled Byomkesh Chakraborty or Byomkesh Chakrabarty) (1923–1981) was a Bengali research worker on ethnic languages. He was also a educationist and a poet. His major contribution to linguistics was in finding out some basic relationship between Santali and the Bengali language. He showed how t... | 2.296875 | 0 |
11673641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byomkes%20Chakrabarti | Byomkes Chakrabarti | Chakrabarti's work covered all the aspects of phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and general characteristics of the languages in literature and vocabulary. Santali, belonging to the Austroasiatic family and having a tradition traceable from pre-Aryan days retained its distinct identity and co-existe... | 2.234375 | 0 |
11673656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaucer%20in%20Rome | Chaucer in Rome | Chaucer in Rome is a play written by John Guare. In part, it is a sequel to House of Blue Leaves, with one character from that play, Ron Shaughnessy, appearing in Chaucer in Rome.
Synopsis
The play is set in Rome during the Holy Year of Jubilee, which is extremely crowded with pilgrims seeking confession and absolutio... | 2.046875 | 0 |
11673777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%E1%BA%BFn%20Giang%20River | Kiến Giang River | The Kiến Giang River () is a river in Lệ Thủy District, Quảng Bình Province, North Central Coast, Vietnam. The length of the river is 58 km. It is a tributary of the Nhật Lệ River. The Kiến Giang River originates in the Annamite Range (Truong Son Range) where various streams add water to it. The upper part of this rive... | 2.546875 | 0 |
11673825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain%20Ngalani | Alain Ngalani | Pierre Alain Ngalani (born July 7, 1975) is a Cameroonian-born-Hong Konger mixed martial artist and Muay Thai kickboxer who most recently fought for ONE Championship, where he competed in the Heavyweight division. He is a four-time Muay Thai World Champion.
Biography and career
Ngalani started learning Judo at the ag... | 1.9375 | 0 |
11673841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20Performance%20Vehicles | Environmental Performance Vehicles | EcoSaver hybrid bus
One of the vehicles within EPV's fleet is the EcoSaver, a range-extended electric hybrid bus. The EcoSaver is plug-in sodium battery powered backed up by an on-board diesel or compressed natural gas (CNG) turbine engine. The bus is 100% emissions free. Unlike other hybrid buses, the on-board engine ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
11673912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt-rumped%20parrotlet | Cobalt-rumped parrotlet | The cobalt-rumped parrotlet (Forpus xanthopterygius) or blue-winged parrotlet is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae.
There are two subspecies: Salvadori's cobalt-rumped parrotlet (F. x. flavescens) and Hellmayr's cobalt-rumped parrotlet (F. x. flavissimus).
Description
Distribution and habitat
Cobalt-rum... | 2.875 | 0 |
11673912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt-rumped%20parrotlet | Cobalt-rumped parrotlet | Reproduction
Cobalt-rumped parrotlets' breeding season is May to August, but occupied nests have been observed in July, January, and March in different areas of the birds' range. Females lay 3-7 small, white, roughly spherical eggs. Some cobalt-rumped parrotlets have been observed to scrape rufous hornero nests (made o... | 3.328125 | 0 |
11673922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abipa | Abipa | King Abipa, also known as Ogbolu or Oba M'oro, was an Alaafin of the Oyo empire. He is believed to have ruled during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Early life
Abipa was the son of Egunoju and one of his queens. He was reportedly born when the royal party was on the road approaching Igboho (his na... | 2.40625 | 0 |
11673960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent%20Bellows | Kent Bellows | Kent Bellows (June 26, 1949 – September 14, 2005) was an artist best known for his figurative works in the realist style. His artwork is sometimes referred to as meticulous realism, a subcategory referring to the artist's startling attention to detail.
The 1950s
Kent Bellows was born on June 26, 1949, in Blair, Nebras... | 2.5 | 0 |
11673960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent%20Bellows | Kent Bellows | The 1970s
Making a decision to focus solely on developing his artistic talent, Bellows sought out patrons in the tradition of the old masters for financial support. These included Omaha native Warren Buffett. Mr. Buffett referred Bellows to his wife, Susie, a lover of the arts. Mrs. Buffett agreed to provide support fo... | 2.125 | 0 |
11673960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent%20Bellows | Kent Bellows | Commenting on his meticulous approach, Bellows stated in 1986, “The image I create on the canvas is the difference between the reality of a photograph and what is actually happening. This makes for a finely tuned picture, enabling me to capture the subject’s soul.” Bellows was reluctant to talk about the meaning of spe... | 1.960938 | 0 |
11674017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dufferin%20Islands | Dufferin Islands | Dufferin Islands are a group of artificial islands located 0.8 km from the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Before being renamed by the Niagara Parks Commission, they were known as Clarke Hill Islands and Cynthia Islands. The islands are decorated annually for the Winter Festival of Lights.
Early history
Wh... | 2.53125 | 0 |
11674017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dufferin%20Islands | Dufferin Islands | Under the Niagara Parks Commission
When the Parks Commission took over, they renamed the islands in honor of Canadian Governor-General Lord Dufferin, who had been instrumental in establishing parkland along the river to replace "The Front", a notoriously rowdy tourist area. The islands remained untouched until 1902, w... | 2.390625 | 0 |
11674022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giancarlo%20Bercellino | Giancarlo Bercellino | Giancarlo Bercellino (; born 9 October 1941) is a former Italian footballer who played as a defender. He is sometimes referred to as Bercellino I, because his brother Silvino Bercellino was also a football player. His father Teresio Bercellino also played football professionally in the Serie A.
Club career
At club lev... | 2.140625 | 0 |
11674053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20Building%20%28University%20of%20Pittsburgh%29 | Music Building (University of Pittsburgh) | The Music Building is an academic building of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, and a contributing property to the Schenley Farms National Historic District. A Longfellow, Alden & Harlow-designed mansion that was originally the home of the pastor of a neighboring church and former... | 2.328125 | 0 |
11674109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Milhollin | Gary Milhollin | Similar revelations continued throughout the 1990s. In 1995, an article in The New York Times revealed that China was the source of poison gas ingredients being smuggled to Iran and that the United States planned to free for export supercomputers that the Pentagon was using to develop the next generation of American we... | 2 | 0 |
11674109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Milhollin | Gary Milhollin | In 2006, when a company from Dubai sought permission to manage an American port, Milhollin gave Congress information showing that Dubai and other ports in the United Arab Emirates had long been transshipment points for the nuclear black market The information helped block the company's application. In 2007, Milhollin a... | 1.984375 | 0 |
11674121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%20Street%20%28Ottawa%29 | Metcalfe Street (Ottawa) | Metcalfe Street () is a downtown arterial road in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is named for Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, a nineteenth-century Governor General of the Province of Canada. It is a north-south route, operating one way northbound, providing a key thoroughfare from Highway 417 (the Queensway). In the late 19t... | 2.09375 | 0 |
11674151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminalia%20schimperiana | Terminalia schimperiana | Terminalia schimperiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Combretaceae. It is native to tropical Africa from Guinea and Sierra Leone east to Uganda and Ethiopia.
Growth
It is a broadleaved small tree that can reach up to 7–14 m, variably deciduous in the dry season to semi-evergreen, depending on the clima... | 2.78125 | 0 |
11674165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthodoras | Acanthodoras | Acanthodoras is a genus of thorny catfishes native to rivers of tropical South America.
Species
There are currently 3 recognized species in this genus:
Acanthodoras cataphractus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Acanthodoras depressus (Steindachner, 1881)
Acanthodoras spinosissimus (C. H. Eigenmann & R. S. Eigenmann, 1888) (Talkin... | 2.8125 | 0 |
11674306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haml | Haml | Haml (HTML Abstraction Markup Language) is a templating system that is designed to avoid writing inline code in a web document and make the HTML cleaner. Similar to other template systems like eRuby, Haml also embeds some code that gets executed during runtime and generates HTML code in order to provide some dynamic co... | 2.4375 | 0 |
11674435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20in%20Kerala | Education in Kerala | The importance and antiquity of education in Kerala are underscored by the state's ranking as among the most literate in the country. The educational transformation of Kerala was triggered by the efforts of both Church Mission Society missionaries like Jon Munro and clergy of Catholic church like Fr Kuriakose Elias Cha... | 2.453125 | 0 |
11674435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20in%20Kerala | Education in Kerala | Travancore rulers
Under reign of the Travancore rulers, Maharaja Visakham Thirunal Rama Varma (1880–1885) and Maharaja MoolamThirunal Rama Varma (1885–1924), Kerala experienced a surge in educational advancements. The rulers implemented grants-in-aid to extend elementary education, categorized schools from primary to ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
11674435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20in%20Kerala | Education in Kerala | Post-Independence era
The Kerala Education Act of 1958 provided for the better organization and development of educational institutions. According to the first economic census, conducted in 1977, 99.7% of the villages in Kerala had a primary school within , 98.6% had a middle school within and 96.7% had a high school... | 2.65625 | 0 |
11674435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20in%20Kerala | Education in Kerala | Polytechnic colleges
Kerala has a network of polytechnic colleges that offer diploma and certificate courses in engineering, technology, and allied disciplines. These colleges focus on practical and technical education.
Student immigration and brain drain
From the mid-2000s onward, there has been a trend of students ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
11674435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20in%20Kerala | Education in Kerala | The courses offered in Kerala universities fall short in comparison to their international counterparts, placing students at a disadvantage. While international students delve deeply into course content, covering up to 14 chapters or modules in just 4 months, their counterparts in Kerala are limited to 5 to 6 modules, ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
11674435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20in%20Kerala | Education in Kerala | Another issue is the lack of rigour within Kerala's educational system, where students are not required to attain an internationally-accepted minimum percentage to progress to advanced courses. In contrast, international universities and colleges demand a minimum of 60 to 72 percent in each course to advance, resulting... | 2.4375 | 0 |
11674435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20in%20Kerala | Education in Kerala | Political activities within Kerala colleges frequently disrupt education, leading to violence, intimidation, and sometimes fatalities. In international universities, political activities serve as opportunities for building teamwork and governance skills, focusing on advocacy causes rather than representing national par... | 2.328125 | 0 |
11674435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20in%20Kerala | Education in Kerala | Science and technology centres in Trivandrum
Thiruvananthapuram is a Research and Development hub in the fields of space science, information technology, bio-technology, and medicine. It is home to the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Liquid Propulsion Systems Ce... | 2.34375 | 0 |
11674435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20in%20Kerala | Education in Kerala | The city of Kollam and its suburbs have plenty of educational institutes including medical colleges, engineering colleges, business management institutions, architectural institutes, state institutes dealing with fashion, design, construction studies, and marine studies. The Thangal Kunju Musaliar College of Engineerin... | 2.140625 | 0 |
11674599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrosideros%20umbellata | Metrosideros umbellata | Metrosideros umbellata, the southern rātā, is a tree endemic to New Zealand. It grows up to or more tall with a trunk up to or more in diameter. It produces masses of red flowers in summer. Unlike its relative, northern rātā, this species rarely grows as an epiphyte.
Description
The flowers of southern rātā are scar... | 2.890625 | 0 |
11674765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sevenwaters%20Trilogy | The Sevenwaters Trilogy | The Sevenwaters Trilogy is a historical fantasy series by Juliet Marillier which was first published as a series of three novels between 1999 and 2001, and then later extended.
The six novels are:
Daughter of the Forest
Son of the Shadows
Child of the Prophecy
Heir to Sevenwaters
Seer of Sevenwaters
Flame of Se... | 1.9375 | 0 |
11674817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%E1%BA%A3i%20V%C3%A2n%20Pass | Hải Vân Pass | During the 1st century A.D., the Chinese general Ma Yuan (Mã Viện), after pacifying northern Vietnam, advanced south and established the southern border of the Hán empire by setting up columns of bronze, possibly at Hải Vân. Ma Yuan also left behind some Chinese military families to hold the frontier. When the Han empi... | 2.515625 | 0 |
11674862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%2031%20Squadron%20RAAF | No. 31 Squadron RAAF | No. 31 Squadron is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) airbase support squadron. It was formed in August 1942 and disbanded in July 1946 after seeing action against the Japanese in the South West Pacific theatre of World War II. During the war, it operated the Bristol Beaufighter, which it operated in long-range fighte... | 1.960938 | 0 |
11674889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Orleans%20Charter%20Science%20and%20Mathematics%20High%20School | New Orleans Charter Science and Mathematics High School | New Orleans Charter Science & Math High School is an open enrollment charter school in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Students commonly refer to the school as "SciHigh", "Science & Math", or vice versa, "Math and Science".
The organization, Advocates for Science and Mathematics Education, governs the school, which is l... | 2.6875 | 0 |
11674945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handroanthus%20chrysanthus | Handroanthus chrysanthus | Handroanthus chrysanthus (araguaney or yellow ipê), formerly classified as Tabebuia chrysantha, also known as araguaney in Venezuela, as guayacán in Colombia and Panama, as chonta quiru in Peru, and Ecuador, as tajibo in Bolivia, and as ipê-amarelo in Brazil, is a native tree of the intertropical broadleaf deciduous fo... | 2.359375 | 0 |
11675016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan%20Han%20%28artist%29 | Yan Han (artist) | Yan Han (; July 12, 1916 – September 26, 2011) was a Chinese artist and teacher.
Born in Donghai County, Jiangsu Province, Yan taught at North China University, and then at the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang; from 1949, he taught first at the China Art Academy, Hangzhou, and then, in 1950, at the Central Acad... | 2.375 | 0 |
11675037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929%20Stanley%20Cup%20Finals | 1929 Stanley Cup Finals | The 1929 Stanley Cup Finals was played by the defending champion New York Rangers and the Boston Bruins. This was the first time in Stanley Cup Finals history that two American-based teams met in the Finals. Boston won the series to win its first championship.
Paths to the Finals
The playoffs were now between division... | 2.265625 | 0 |
11675054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%2080%20Squadron%20RAAF | No. 80 Squadron RAAF | No. 80 Squadron continued to support Allied amphibious operations between May and July 1944. In May it covered the invasions Wakde and Biak from its base at Hollandia. This included attacking targets near the beachhead at Wakde while US troops landed. The squadron moved twice in July, arriving at Biak on 1 July and Noe... | 2.3125 | 0 |
11675077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%20Hall%20%28University%20of%20Pittsburgh%29 | Allen Hall (University of Pittsburgh) | Allen Hall at the University of Pittsburgh is a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark and a contributing property to the Schenley Farms National Historic District. Completed in 1914 and originally serving as the home to the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, the six-story Greek Revival bui... | 2.265625 | 0 |
11675077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%20Hall%20%28University%20of%20Pittsburgh%29 | Allen Hall (University of Pittsburgh) | Structure
Allen Hall comprises six stories (a ground floor and 1st–5th floors) using granite for the lower two stories and buff brick for the next three stories; the 5th floor is windowless and concealed by the roof. Due to the building's age and landmark status, and despite internal renovations, all floors, with the ... | 2.125 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | The pipeline became well known when the proposed KXL extension attracted opposition from environmentalists with concerns about climate change and fossil fuels. In 2015, KXL was temporarily delayed by President Barack Obama. On January 24, 2017, President Donald Trump took action intended to permit the pipeline's comple... | 2.140625 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | On July 21, 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency criticized the State Department's draft environmental impact study for neglecting concerns about oil spill response plans, safety issues and greenhouse gas.
In February 2011, the Keystone-Cushing extension (Phase II) was completed running from Steele City to a tank... | 1.929688 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | A second bill approving the construction of the pipeline was passed in a 62–36 vote on 29 January 2015 and by the House in a 270–152 vote on 11 February, but on 24 February it was vetoed by President Obama, who said that the approval decision should rest with the Executive Branch. The Senate was unable to override the ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | On January 24, 2017, in his first week in office, President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum to revive both Keystone XL pipelines, which "would transport more than per day of heavy crude" from Alberta to the Gulf Coast.
On March 9, 2017, the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier of Alberta Ra... | 1.976563 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | On September 19, 2011, a number of Indigenous tribal leaders in the United States and Canada were arrested for protesting the Keystone XL outside the White House. According to Debra White Plume, a Lakota activist, Indigenous peoples "have thousands of ancient and historical cultural resources that would be destroyed ac... | 2.828125 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | The US Gulf Coast has a large concentration of refineries designed to process very heavy crude oil. At present, the refineries are dependent on heavy crude from Venezuela, including crude from Venezuela's own massive Orinoco oil sands. The United States is the number one buyer of crude oil exported from Venezuela. The ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | Effects on oil industry and consumers
In 2010 Glen Perry, a petroleum engineer for Adira Energy, warned that including the Alberta Clipper pipeline owned by TransCanada's competitor Enbridge, there is an extensive overcapacity of oil pipelines from Canada. After completion of the Keystone XL line, oil pipelines to the... | 2.421875 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | Safety
A USA Today editorial pointed out that the 2013 Lac-Mégantic derailment in Quebec, in which crude oil carried by rail cars exploded and killed 47 people, highlights the safety of pipelines compared to truck or rail transport. The oil in the Lac-Mégantic rail cars came from the Bakken Formation in North Dakota, a... | 2.59375 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | In the year before the 2012 United States presidential election, McKibben and other activists mounted pressure on then-President Obama, who was running for re-election. Obama had included a call to "be the generation that finally frees America from the tyranny of oil" in his 2008 United States presidential election. A ... | 1.929688 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | Environmental concerns
Environmental concerns include the potential for air pollution, and for leaks and spills, that could pollute critical water supplies and cause harm to migratory birds and other wildlife. One of the major concerns was the way in which the original route crossed the Sandhills, the large wetland eco... | 2.765625 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | On November 30, 2011, a group of Republican senators introduced legislation aimed at forcing the Obama administration to make a decision within 60 days. In December 2011, Congress passed a bill giving the Obama Administration a 60-day deadline to make a decision on the application to build the Keystone XL Pipeline.
In... | 2.140625 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | In April 2013, the EPA challenged the U.S. State Department report's conclusion that the pipeline would not result in greater oil sand production, noting that "while informative, [it] is not based on an updated energy-economic modeling effort". Overall, the EPA rated the SEIS with their category "EO-2" (EO for "environ... | 1.90625 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | On January 9, 2015, the Nebraska Supreme Court cleared the way for construction, and on the same day the House voted in favor of the pipeline. On January 29, 2015, the Keystone XL Pipeline was passed by the Senate 62–36. On February 11, 2015, the Keystone XL Pipeline was passed by the House of Representatives with the ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | Other items of note in Stansbury's analysis:
"While TransCanada estimates that the Keystone XL will have 11 significant spills, defined as more than of crude oil, over 50 years, a more realistic assessment is 91 significant spills over the pipeline's operational lifetime. TransCanada arbitrarily and improperly adjust... | 2.21875 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | "Contaminants from a release at the Missouri or Yellowstone River crossing would enter Lake Sakakawea in North Dakota where they would adversely affect drinking water intakes, aquatic wildlife, and recreation. Contaminants from a spill at the Platte River crossing would travel downstream unabated into the Missouri Rive... | 2.375 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | Portions of the pipeline will also cross an active seismic zone that had a 4.3-magnitude earthquake as recently as 2002. Opponents claim that TransCanada applied to the U.S. government to use thinner steel and pump at higher pressures than normal.
TransCanada CEO Russ Girling has described the Keystone Pipeline as "ro... | 2.09375 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | Different environmental groups, citizens, and politicians have raised concerns about the potential negative impacts of the Keystone XL project.
The main issues are the risk of oil spills along the pipeline, which would traverse highly sensitive terrain, and 17% higher greenhouse gas emissions from the extraction of oi... | 2.828125 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | Increased carbon emissions
Environmental organizations such as the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) also oppose the project due to its transportation of oil from oil sands. In its March 2010 report, the NRDC stated that "the Keystone XL Pipeline undermines the U.S. commitment to a clean energy economy", instead... | 2.1875 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | As of 2013, however, producing and processing tar sands oil results in roughly 14 per cent more greenhouse gas emissions than the average oil used in the U.S.
The State Department's 2012 Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (Final SEIS) estimated that producing and transporting oil to the pipeline's capaci... | 2.203125 | 0 |
11675105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Pipeline | Keystone Pipeline | Alternative projects
On November 16, 2011, Enbridge announced it was buying ConocoPhillips's 50% interest in the Seaway pipeline that flowed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Cushing hub. In cooperation with Enterprise Products Partners LP it is reversing the Seaway pipeline so that an oversupply of oil at Cushing can rea... | 1.992188 | 0 |
11675192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%2027002 | ISO/IEC 27002 | Physical access to premises and support infrastructure (communications, power, air conditioning etc.) must be monitored and restricted to prevent, detect and minimize the effects of unauthorized and inappropriate access, tampering, vandalism, criminal damage, theft etc.
The list of people authorized to access secure ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
11675192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%2027002 | ISO/IEC 27002 | Access control
User access to corporate IT systems, networks, applications and information must be controlled in accordance with access requirements specified by the relevant Information Asset Owners, normally according to the user's role.
Generic or test IDs must not be created or enabled on production systems unle... | 2.25 | 0 |
11675192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%2027002 | ISO/IEC 27002 | National equivalent standards
ISO/IEC 27002 has directly equivalent national standards in several countries. Translation and local publication often results in several months' delay after the main ISO/IEC standard is revised and released, but the national standard bodies go to great lengths to ensure that the translate... | 1.9375 | 0 |
11675243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail%20design | Retail design | The first known chain department stores were established in Belgium in 1868, when Isidore, Benjamin and Modeste Dewachter incorporated Dewachter frères (Dewachter Brothers) selling ready-to-wear clothing for men and children and specialty clothing such as riding apparel and beachwear. The firm opened with four location... | 2.609375 | 0 |
11675243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail%20design | Retail design | The next evolution of retail design was the creation of the boutique in the 1960s, which emphasized retail design run by individuals. Some of the earliest examples of boutiques are the Biba boutique created by Barbara Hulanicki and the Habitat line of stores made by Terence Conran. The rise of the boutique was followed... | 2.5 | 0 |
11675243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail%20design | Retail design | Lighting can have a dramatic impact on the space. It needs to be functional but also complement the merchandise as well as emphasize key points throughout the store. The lighting should be layered and of a variety of intensities and fixtures. Firstly, examine the natural light and what impact it has in the space. Natur... | 2 | 0 |
11675262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%20Rieve | Emil Rieve | Emil Rieve (June 8, 1892 – January 24, 1975) was an American labor leader. He was president of the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) from 1939 to 1956, a vice president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) from 1939 to 1955, and a vice president of the AFL-CIO from 1955 to 1960.
Emil Rieve was born ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
11675262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%20Rieve | Emil Rieve | Early union career
In 1907, at the age of 15, Rieve joined the American Federation of Hosiery Workers (AFHW), a semi-autonomous division of the United Textile Workers of America (UTW), an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. His rise in the union was meteoric: At the age of 22, he was elected a vice president... | 2.5625 | 0 |
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